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The essential features of Adena ritual and their implications
Southeastern archaeology • 17 • Published In 1998 • Pages: 1-21
By: Clay, R. Berle.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Clay explores the vertical organization of Adena burial mounds. He see it as 'a basic instability in the Adena … ritual centers on the Central Ohio Valley. It suggests to [Clay] that the structures of inter-group cooperation may have gone though cycles during which rital cooperation in mortuary was differentially expressed.' (page 19). In other words, the premound structures were used for one type of cooperative ritual by several groups. And once a mound was started, a different type of ritual had to occur at that place. He see Adena ritual structures as evidence of cooperation between small, mobile social groups
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Reviews and critiques
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Architecture
- Miscellaneous structures
- Settlement patterns
- Miscellaneous facilities
- Burial practices and funerals
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Adena
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern Woodlands
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry ; 2005
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 2400 BP-1750 BP (400 B.C.-250 A.D.)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Ohio Valley; Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia; United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- R. Berle Clay
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 19-21)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 84649369
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Adena culture